KCRA has the recap of today’s news conference by People United, the grassroots group that is promising to oppose a publicly funded arena. Choice quote by the county’s man on the negotiation table, Roger Dickinson:
“Do we want the finest facilities to allow us to enjoy the great artists, the great sports of the world, or not? And that’s a choice people can make.”
I mean, feel free to disagree, but I think we should try to make Sacramento the greatest city since Rome. If you feel like we should live in mud huts and eat our own poo, then that’s your opinion and you’re entitled to it.
The Sac Rag 
Yeah, if you’re some kind of lame-ass jerk that doesn’t care about sports and would instead like to see things like levees that work or simply keep your money and spend it instead of paying more taxes, that’s your own private business.
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My favorite quote was his disclaimer that “it’s not about the tall guys in short pants.” If I had a dime for every politician I heard use that excuse I’d be able to pay for the arena myself. They said that about the war in Iraq too as I recall.
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Why not just impose an “arena tax” on tickets that are sold for events at the current arena (Kings games, concerts, etc.)? That way, the people who this new arena really matters to can fund it themselves. The last event I went to at the arena that I actually paid for involved New Kids On The Block in 1988 – why should I pay (through my tax money) for something that, in effect, I’d have to pay to use anyway (if I ever even did find a reason to go).
No, thank you.
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